7.DANA ROHRABACHEROne trait we love in the loony congressman is his willingness to continually rewrite history. This year, Orange County's senior career politician claimed on Twitter that he never once supported President George W. Bush's decision to invade Iraq. We opened our 13 file drawers on Dana Rohrabacher (including one on his, um, special Mexican and Afghanistan vacation trips) and found he'd vocally backed Bush's decision in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006. He'd even ridiculously predicted the Iraqis would forever treat Americans as welcome conquerors because they wanted their country to become a capitalistic democracy. Mitigating factor: The 12-term congressman uses sock-puppet identities to write bitter comments on Weekly articles online about his lies.

8.CAT CORPSE-VIOLATING NEWPORT HARBOR HIGH KIDSWe've been as bored as the next kid in high-school science labs, but some Sailors not only photographed themselves playing with pieces of cut-up cats from dissection assignments, but they also posted them on Facebook with jokey comments. The school-board president bowed to the pressure last week, the nonprofit group says. Mitigating factor: At least the teacher figured out a way to get kids to come to class.

9.JERRY AMANTEWe first wrote about the loudmouthed Tustin councilman a few years ago when he repeatedly interrupted and mocked then-councilwoman Deborah Gavello (a bank consultant) for having the temerity to question the city's investment portfolio. But that was polite behavior compared to the assholery Jerry Amante demonstrated when he demanded the resignation of Brandman University professor Fred Smoller in the wake of a report his students presented on salaries of public officials in Southern California. The Orange County grand jury wrote he committed "malfeasance in office" by pressuring Brandman to get rid of Smoller. Didn't matter: Four days after the grand jury's report, a Republican political consulting firm hired Amante. Mitigating Factor: Smoller was secretly working for the Partnership, a cabal of ketchup providers, merchants, outdated camera-film purveyors and sausage makers that secretly controls Orange County government. Just ask Steve Rocco.

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#19 This guy!

10.THE MONKEY ON NADIA MARIA LOCKYER'S BACKThis time last year, Nadia Maria Lockyer was an up-and-coming politician with a bright future. The former Santa Ana Unified School District trustee was an Alameda County supervisor married to State Treasurer Bill Lockyer. Then came meth. At an addiction-recovery center, Lockyer—Nadia, that is—began an affair with a fellow addict. He made a tape of them having sex, and the next thing you know, police are showing up at a hotel room where she has just gotten into a fight with the guy. She claims he attacked her; the guy denies it. He tells reporters about the sex tape and mails a copy of it to Mr. Lockyer, and a copy ends up on the web. Nadia tries to keep the marriage and the job, but she loses both within a few months. Then she returns to Orange County with her young child and promptly gets arrested for having a meth pipe in the house. Goodbye, governor's mansion; hello, Real Housewives of Theo Lacy. Mitigating Factor: She's still kinda cute.

11.PEDRO PIMENTEL RIOSBack in October 1982, Pedro Pimentel Rios and several dozen other Kaibiles—the ruthless Guatemalan special forces that committed numerous atrocities in that country's civil war—surrounded a tiny jungle hamlet named Dos Erres, raped the girls and women, then systematically murdered everyone, including small children. A few days later, Rios left Guatemala to teach at the U.S. Army School of the Americas in Panama, whose list of graduates reads as though it's of Satan's cabana boys. Eventually, Rios made his way to Santa Ana and worked quietly in a factory until la migra sent his ass back to Guatemala for trial. Earlier this year, a judge sentenced him to a symbolic term of 6,000 years, roughly a life sentence for each innocent villager Rios helped to murder. Mitigating Factor: At least he's not a Mexican.

12. JOHN WESLEY MARTYNECHe billed himself as a Seal Beach realtor who specialized in buying properties going through foreclosure, then flipping them at a profit. He convinced investors—particularly the elderly, unsuspecting kind—to fork over hundreds of thousands of dollars for such ventures. Problem is, according to Orange County district attorney's office prosecutors, John Wesley Martynec never used the cash to purchase any houses, giving his unfortunate investors phony records to cover his tracks. When they asked where their returns were, Martynec allegedly stopped taking their calls. He pleaded guilty earlier this year to fraud and awaits sentencing, but that scam was nothing compared to what got Martynec arrested again this summer: a $1.8 million scheme in which he used identity theft to create phony tenants who supposedly had to be paid to vacate properties being foreclosed on, using the cash to finance lavish renovations to his home and expensive vacations in Hawaii. Mitigating Factor: Feel the aloha, bitches!

13.JENNY REDMONDA high-school faculty adviser who didn't want a certain candidate winning an Associated Student Body (ASB) seat rigged the results to deny victory to said student. If you've heard that one before, you've either seen Alexander Payne's movie Election or heard about last winter's controversy at Troy High School in Fullerton, where teacher Jenny Redmond pulled a Mr. McAllister, only her target was not Tracy Flick, but Ryan Daliwal, who embarrassed Troy administrators and was eventually reinstated as the rightful ASB president. Mitigating factor: Redmond was forced to step down as student-government adviser, but she was allowed to teach special-education classes on campus. Union, yes!

Mr. Arellano, how in the world have you figured out how evil Dr. Moreno is? He has single-handedly made the Anaheim City School District the laughing stock of Orange County. While it has five board members, Moreno controls all. However, it is surprising that anyone outside his victims would know how callous and calculating he is. Only the fools, like Julio Perez, Al Jabbar, Alejandro Gonzalez, Amin David, and others, revere the ground this parasite walks on. He is the worst board member that district has ever seen!

This article is very disappointing. The fact that you are generalizing an entire senior class and putting down a LOT of very good children for the actions of the very few, who were in fact disciplined and sent home that very day. Also, you have not checked your facts at all, that class did NOT go to Disneyland. Very unprofessional and very untrue.

A little something to add to the James Robert Reade file. At last night's City Council meeting he was ousted from his usual seat in the front row, after terrifying little girls who were trying to speak at the podium during public comments. Mayor Tait asked him to move to the end of the row and stop bothering the children, he refused and Tait has him removed. One of the few times I wanted to break out in song during a Council meeting. Of course the rest of is was a complete sausage factory of epic proportions, but we did get rid of Reade for one night.

Lots of decent (and easy) picks, but: #28 Dr. Jose F. Moreno? Really? Because he "is the lead plaintiff in an ACLU-filed lawsuit trying to force ward elections for Anaheim council races by crying lack of diversity; the lawsuit is so ahistorical and riddled with errors it comes off as the self-serving springboard it is for Moreno to run for a seat in 2014."

I see that what scares Gustavo Arellano is people who think that actually using the legal tools available to fight for social justice is preferable to recycling history of long-dead-and-decomposed KKK leaders. This one goes into the growing file of examples of the Weekly's petty umbrage.

@GregDiamond Nobody cares what you think, Greg. You are an unemployed Brea lawyer who is running California's worst state senate campaign. You do nothing but spend your days and nights writing self-important blog comments. You consider yourself a political expert and THAT was your brilliant strategy to win? Or did you run merely to increase your own name ID in hopes if saving your laughable law career--the one you run out if a Brea rental?

@GregDiamond Don't you have a state senate campaign to run? That's right: you're just a pathetic loser who has nothing to offer to Orange County other than sanctimonious gasbaggery with no basis in reality. But, hey: keep getting blinded by what you think is right—the rest of us who know will continue to laugh at your stupidity.

@GustavoArellano Let's try this again, Aska. You include Dr. Jose Moreno on this list -- over, as Gericault notes below, the likes of Righeimer, not just serial killers -- because he's lead plaintiff in a lawsuit that seeks relief (implementing a ward system) that as I recall YOU NOW FAVOR, because you don't like the use of a legal theory the necessity of which you apparently still don't understand.

Your response to that is to tell me to get back to my campaign. (Hey, you guys have decent readership, I'm reaching far more people with this post during the 10 minutes it takes me to write it than I could on foot.) Rather than addressing the meat of the criticism (he's using the legal tools available for a good end, rather than retreating into historical attacks on those long dead, as you've done this year), you offer vague and conclusaory insults ("pathetic loser," "nothing to offer," "sanctimonious gasbaggery," "no basis in reality") that are difficult to swing at because THERE'S NOTHING ACTUALLY REFERENCED THERE. It's intellectually cowardice (if it's even intellectual at all.) You want to argue about these things? Just let me know where and when to show up. Proceeds to charity.

I leave it to your discerning readers to decide whether they think that I am stupid, cabrón. Maybe they can also decide why your defense of your publication's writing is continually referring to achievements long past.

@GustavoArellano@GregDiamond Gustavo.... you should admit this list is pretty "f''n weak. I know your office is in Costa Mesa , but are you even paying attention to the shit that is happening here? The "rest of us who know", think you guys at the Weekly are too busy finding the perfect $5 dollar lunch deal. Your cutting edge weekly is starting to look like a facebook page where everyone takes pictures of what they're eating.

@rotoro91 That's the thing—Pringle NEVER changed. He's always been the self-serving idiot he is, and played David to a T even though better minds warned him about the dalliance. For that, Los Amigos lost all credibility for me—and that's just one of their sins...

@GustavoArellano@GregDiamond Your Klan pieces are OK -- they are simply not a priority for talking about race in 2012. It would be as if you were writing during the march on Selma and telling people that they should stop bugging you about what happened the Edmund Pettis Bridge because you had something important to tell them about the Rutherford Hayes administration.

How much more important and pressing is it, in your eyes, to note that some cretin from Yorba Linda's distant pass is a Klansman than to ask what the effects of the Costa Mesa Charter would be on that city's middle class?

"Blithering idiocies" from a "laughably inept dumbass" that you apparently can't refute. You pick out one thing to defend -- the most personal thing, naturally -- and the rest you answer with sweeping and general insults. I don't know who you think you're fooling -- but you certainly seem to think that they're awfully gullible.

Ricardo is my name. I had a brief conversation with David Amin and I asked him about their past ties to Pringle. He said that Pringle changed, he is a different person. I am not going to put las manos en el fuego and I will look this up. Many of us look up to the examples of successfull members of our community. The severity of the disagreements between you and Dr Moreno appears as "cannibalism". If the disagreements are legitimate, then ni modo, we will survive.

@rotoro91 Richard--I think that's your name? Los Amigos were the very people who allowed Curt Pringle to get into power, which set forth the very problems they seek to solve today with their forked tongues. You can look it up!

The KKK pieces are a good reminder of the racist legacy in OC. It helps to understand the reactionary set-mind of many politicians and institutions, especially the police departments. However, history and description of current events are not enough to change the pinche reality. Endorsing good people like Duane Roberts is a step in the right direction, but much more can and needs to be done. I do not know Dr Moreno personally, but him and Los Amigos, have done a lot to advance solutions favouring the most vulnerable in our community. I am dissapointed that he has been included in this list. I expected Greg Diamond to be included. He is scary, whether you like it or not, in addition to put you to sleep, the guy is intelectually a force to be reckoned. I appreciate that the word pendejo has not been used to dismiss disagreements.

@GregDiamond As usual, all you offer is blithering idiocies instead of offering any reason for people to think of you than more than a laughably inept dumbass. And your criticisms of my Klan pieces are the very same offered by Matt Cunningham and other similar losers--can't say I'm surprised!

@GustavoArellano I'll grant you the hit on Albert Chavez and I'll throw in the one on Troy Edgar. (The latter looks like it was handed to you on a platter, though.) Those weren't what you mentioned in your comment, though. That was about Costa Mesa.You've stopped calling out "Riggy's shit" -- your coverage of the Charter (Measure V) seems to be limited to one paragraph in your voter guide for that city, here:

"Perhaps the most contentious issue among Costa Mesa voters is deciding whether to pass or strike down Measure V, which aims to make Costa Mesa a charter city as approved by the council. If passed, Costa Mesa would follow a local constitution, giving it more control over its municipal affairs. Essentially, it allows the city council to outsource its workforce, mandates voter approval for any increase in public pension benefits, and prohibits unions from taking money out of city employee paychecks for political use. All of which, the council majority says, will save the city money. Critics, including union members and community activists, contend the proposed charter places too much power in the hands of a few council members, and is unnecessary to balance the budget."

No mention of the great issues that have been brought up continually by the likes of Geoff West and Greg Ridge, asking how THIS charter compares to others -- like in the City of Bell -- and why it grants such MASSIVELY BROAD powers to a Council that has already irresponsibly run up enormous legal fees with other people's tax money to try to fix the race. And this is in your own city! By next Friday or so, I'll have written more about Measures T and U in Brea, which I've educated myself on last week, than you'll have published about the MERITS of Measure V in the past year.

I can't take credit for breaking much new ground on the Charter at our place, but at least I've written about and tried to make sure that people are aware of the great work at A Bubbling Cauldron. The Weekly's just giving a full page to reviewing Geoff West's thoughtful criticisms of THIS PARTICULAR Charter (rather than another possible charter) would be an achievement. But no -- your last story dealing with the substance of the Charter issues was from Sept. 1, 2011: http://www.ocweekly.com/2011-09-01/news/costa-mesa-jim-righeimer-huy-pham/. If one of the civil leaders 100 years ago in what became Costa Mesa had been a Klansman, though, we'd sure know about it!

Thanks as always for the campaign advice. Yeah, I have a campaign to run. Don't you have a readership to inform?

@GustavoArellano@GregDiamond I agree, Anaheim is worse. But surely, Bustamante is scary enough to make that cut.....and don't assume Riggy was my reference. You can hold up a 73 year old retired marine with a gun, or a vicious city code harassment scheme, either way he's getting robbed. There's a lot more going on over here than you know about.

@Gericault@GregDiamond Oh, please. I'm sorry we don't think Righeimer is more evil than a city council candidate who had a man wrongfully imprisoned for over a year, or a serial killer. Besides, we called out Riggy's shit years before anyone did, along with Mansoor, Monahan, and all those idiots. Costa Mesa's problems are nowhere near what's happening in Anaheim, and you know it.